Cigarette.



J. W. KEENAN.

I CIGARETTE. 7 APPLICATION TILED D30. 27. 1910.

1,005,981, Patented 001;. 17, 1911.

gm 2% W JAMES W. KEENAN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

CIGARETTE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1'7, 1911.

Application filed December 27, 1910. Serial No. 599,277.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. KEENAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cigarettes, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to make a paper wrapped cigarette havinga mouth piece, more cheaply than such cigarettes have heretofore beenmade.

The invention consists of a cigarette having a paper wrapper which atone end is folded outward and backward upon itself to double thethickness of said wrapper at and near said end and furnish a protectivemouth piece.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a plan view of the paper wrapper for acigarette. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the said wrapper with one endfolded back upon itself to render the paper double thick at and nearsaid end. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of a completecigarette embodying the invention.

In constructing cigarettes embodying the invention, like that shown inFig. 8, the ordinary very thin rice paper, or other suitable thin papermay be used. Prior to rolling it about the tobacco one end a of saidpaper wrapper A is folded back upon itself along the line a a in Fig. 1.The wrapper shown in Fig. 2 is rolled about the tobacco B. The turnedover end is left outside, where it serves in a very satisfactory degreethe same purpose for which slips of paper, cork and the like aregenerally pasted around cigarettes near one end thereof,z'. 6. it servesas a protective mouth piece. The

paper at the mouth piece is doubled in thicknesses by being turned overas stated. If when the protective fold becomes wet it is torn by thelips or teeth of the smoker, this does not materially injure thecigarette or render it difficult or uncomfortable to smoke. The inner ormain part of the wrapper has remained intact, and the cigarette issubstantially what it would be if the mouth piece fold had never beenthere. a

I am aware that protective mouth pieces made of cork, paper, straw,etc., have been pasted around one end of a cigarette wrapper; and I donot claim such constructions as my invention. The primary objection tothese old constructions from the manufacturers view point is that theputting on of these mouth pieces is a very considerable part of the costof making the cigarette. The construction herein shown and described isvery much cheaper. Moreover, manylike the feel of the rice paper intheir mouths, and will not smoke those having the applied mouth piecesheretofore used. The cigarette herein described will not beobjectionable to such smokers, for while it has a protective,

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

